Quotes About History

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.